Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America

Contents

Introduction: Making Race, Making Health vii Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers 1. Curing the Nation with Cacti: Native Healing and State Building before the Texas Revolution 1 Mark Allan Goldberg 2. Complicating Colonial Narratives: Medical Encounters around the Salish Sea, 1853–1878 23 Jennifer Seltz 3. “I Studied and Practiced Medicine without Molestation”: African American Doctors in the First Years of Freedom 43 Gretchen Long 4. At the Nation’s Edge: African American Migrants and Smallpox in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Mexican– American Borderlands 67 John Mckiernan-González 5. Diagnosing the Ailments of Black Citizenship: African American Physicians and the Politics of Mental Illness, 1895–1940 91 Martin Summers 6. “An Indispensable Service”: Midwives and Medical Officials after New Mexico Statehood 115 Lena McQuade-Salzfass 7. Professionalizing “Local Girls”: Nursing and U.S. Colonial Rule in Hawai‘i, 1920–1948 143 Jean J. Kim Contents 8. Borders, Laborers, and Racialized Medicalization: Mexican Immigration and U.S. Public Health Practices in the Twentieth Century 167 Natalia Molina 9. “A Transformation for Migrants”: Mexican Farmworkers and Federal Health Reform during the New Deal Era 185 Verónica Martínez-Matsuda 10. “Hunger in America” and the Power of Television: Poor People, Physicians, and the Mass Media in the War against Poverty 211 Laurie B. Green 11. Making Crack Babies: Race Discourse and the Biologization of Behavior 237 Jason E. Glenn 12. Suffering and Resistance, Voice and Agency: Thoughts on History and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study 261 Susan M. Reverby Contributors 275 Index 277 ...